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A gunman armed with a semiautomatic rifle walked into a suburban San Diego County synagogue and opened fire on the congregation Saturday, killing one person and injuring three in an attack that authorities believe was motivated by hate.
A 19-year-old was arrested in connection with the shooting, authorities said. The gunman, who is white, entered Chabad of Poway on Chabad Way about 11:20 a.m. and started firing.
He was identified as John T. Earnest, a Rancho Penasquitos resident. He was arrested and is being questioned by homicide detectives.
Earnest appears to have written a letter posted on the Internet filled anti-Semitic screeds. In the letter, he also talked about the planning the attack.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/synagogue-shooting-near-san-diego-leaves-1-dead-in-hate-attack-19-year-old-arrested/ar-BBWmdIJ?li=BBnb7Kz
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)...as a sellout and Jew-lover.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Apparently in the 8 page letter he answers a lot of the questions you normally ask after one of these shootings. He addressed his political views, his family, background, genealogy, finances, his mental state, his views on death/suicide, who influenced him, where he was educated about his current views as well as mentioning someone who funded his enterprise. A lot of it is white/hate lingo and jargon so it was like trying to read and comprehend Greek.
I am watching the local news in San Diego and someone heard his mother when his parents were escorted to their home. She said, "But he didn't even have a rifle".
lunasun
(21,646 posts)In his manifesto, John Earnest wrote, I sacrifice this for the sake of my people. OUR people. I would die a thousand times over to prevent the doomed fate that the Jews have planned for my race.
Earnest claims he set a fire at an Escondido mosque in the weeks after the Christchurch shooting. In his manifesto, Earnest wrote, I scorched a mosque in Escondido with gasoline a week after Brenton Tarrants sacrifice and they never found shit on me
In his manifesto, John Earnest wrote a lightning round with questions and answers. The first question he answered was whether he is a Trump supporter. He wrote, You mean that Zionist, Jew-loving, anti-White, traitorous c*cksucker? Dont make me laugh.
The Pittsburgh shooting suspect had posted on Gab about why he didnt support Trump, saying that he was not anti-Semitic enough for him.
About his political ideology, Earnest wrote, Its called not wanting to go extinct.
Not a trump supporter he said
I have been very afraid thinking of who comes after trump
if we do not stop this hate wave we are under
It could get a lot worse later with what is being propped up, ignored under Trump now
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)...just the way that, had the shooter been Muslim, they would have investigated his mosque as a hotbed of radical terrorism.